Mute Vol 1, No. 28 (Summer/Autumn 2004)
In this issue of Mute, the focus seems to lie less on cultural production than different cultures of resistance. A central focus of coverage is the university and its smoothing out into a site coextensive with the operations of neo-liberal economics. Meanwhile, some of the formalised spaces of resistance such as the World and European Social Forums are succumbing to the dominion of representational politics, as parliamentary parties and NGOs infiltrate and co-opt their organisation and root out any potential radicalism. Now that everything has become a temporary autonomous zone, embracing tactical forms is everybody's game; no reason why only the capitalist state should learn to perfect it. Look out, here comes everybody, we're all called Steve, and we've all got a Special Access Programme!
2004-06, ISSN 1356-7748-28
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FURTHER DESCRIPTION
Including:
A Self-Institutions section including a Mute Survey of self-instituted educational projects
(Copenhagen Free University, Laser, Mobilised Investigation etc) and writing from Howard Slater, Mayo Fuster and Ewa Jasiewicz
Tiziana Terranova and Marc Bousquet on the crisis of the university
Massimo de Angelis on Paolo Virno's Grammar of the Mutitude
Brian Kim Stefans on digital poetry
Jean Jacques Lecercle on Slavoj Zizek's Organs Without Bodies
Lutham Blissett on gender, networks and the PGA conference in Serbia
A Social Forums Section including reports and articles by Rahul Rao, Olivier de Marcellus and Isa Fremaux
Richard Wright on the history of debates in computer art
Melancholic Troglodytes on Iranian Cinema
Kolinko's enquiry into call centre work
Richard Barbrook on cold war technology and consumer futurism
A Social Forums Section including reports and articles by Rahul Rao, Olivier de Marcellus and Isa Fremaux
Stewart Home and Roger Taylor on The Invention of Art
Lavish Full Colour Illustrated
Dimensions: 27.5 x 24 x 1 cm
144 pages
ISSN 1356-7748